Preoperative Assessment of Patients Undergoing Bariatric Sleeve Gastrectomy: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 1

Clinical and endoscopic characteristics of the studied sample.

	All participants	kg/m^2 ()	kg/m^2 ()	value
Age				0.01
Sex (males)	49 (37.1)	10 (34.5)	39 (37.9)	0.64
Laboratory findings
HbA1c %				0.90
TSH (μL/mL)				0.03
T4 (pmol/L)				0.37
T3(pmol/L)				0.02
LDL (mmol/L)				0.76
HDL (mmol/L)				0.14
TRI (mmol/L)				0.33
Total cholesterol (mmol/L)				0.95
Helicobacter pylori prevalence (%)	36 (35.0)	8 (33.3)	28 (33.7)	0.90
Esophageal endoscopic findings (%)
Reflux esophagitis	24 (18.6)	5 (19.2)	19 (18.6)	0.87
Hiatal hernia	22 (17.1)	2 (7.7)	20 (19.6)	0.24
Incompetent cardia	46 (35.6)	11 (42.3)	35 (34.3)	0.45
Gastric endoscopic findings (%)
Pangastritis	7 (5.4)	2 (7.7)	5 (4.9)	0.63
Antral gastritis	44 (34.1)	8 (30.8)	36 (35.3)	0.82
Nodular gastritis	16 (12.4)	4 (15.4)	12 (11.8)	0.62
Gastric ulceration	5 (3.8)	3 (11.5)	3 (2.9)	0.09
Other gastric findings	27 (20.7)	5 (17.9)	22 (21.4)	0.79
Duodenal endoscopic findings (%)
Duodenitis 1^st part	10 (7.8)	1 (3.8)	9 (8.8)	0.68
Duodenitis 2^nd part	2 (1.6)	0 (0.0)	2 (2.0)	0.99
Duodenitis both parts	3 (2.3)	1 (3.8)	2 (2.0)	0.50
Duodenal ulcer	5 (3.8)	1 (3.8)	4 (3.9)	0.99

Significant -value.